A symposium on Botticelli @FAMSF
A symposium on Botticelli  @FAMSF
Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Join us for a one-day international symposium and hear from scholars, curators, and academics on Sandro Botticelli’s art and design processes. This program will include an introduction to the exhibition Botticelli Drawings organized by exhibition curator Furio Rinaldi, curator of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. It will also include original scholarship and presentations by Emanuele Lugli, assistant professor at Stanford University, Patricia L. Rubin, emeritus professor of Renaissance art at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York, Jacqueline Thallmann, curator at the Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford, and more.

Schedule (in order of appearance):

Thomas P. Campbell (FAMSF, director and CEO), Opening remarks

Furio Rinaldi (FAMSF, curator of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts), Introduction

Davide Gasparotto (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles), How Much Do You Want a Botticelli?: Botticelli Comes to America

Jacqueline Thalmann (Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford), Botticelli and Filippino Lippi: The Underdrawing of the Christ Church Sibyl Panels Revealed

Emanuele Lugli (Stanford University), Botticelli, Painter, and Draftsman of Fabulous Hair

Michelle O’Malley (The Warburg Institute, London), Botticelli’s Hidden Drawings: Management and Production in the Workshop

Patricia Lee Rubin (Courtauld Institute, London), In the Company of Devils, Lost Souls, and Angels: Botticelli, Dante, and The Divine Comedy

Learn more about the speakers here: famsf.org/events/symposium-on-botticelli


Sponsors

This program is supported by the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco and under the auspices of the Italian Consulate General in San Francisco

Learn more about the exhibition: famsf.org/exhibitions/botticelli-drawings
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